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Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:24:59 -0700
From: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
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Subject: Re: 'read -p' in ash
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According to Jerry D. Hedden on 1/15/2008 8:35 AM:
| According to its man page, 'ash' supports the '-p' option on 'read'.
|
| Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong?

Cygwin's ash is notoriously out-of-date and non-POSIX compliant.  For
almost all cases, you are probably better off using bash (the exception is
when running rebaseall, to affect even the libraries used by bash).

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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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